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And we're, at last, ready for paints!
🕑 Added 2021-09-23 22:10:14 +0000 UTCMy friens, this is shaping up to be my biggest project so far! But it makes me feel very excited to see how it'll turn out in the end.
The resin figures from PanzerArt are just beautiful, hands down the best figures I've ever seen. The dude with his arm against the roof had his legs spread wide open (they're all designed for a StuG III which has bigger hatches), so I had to give him a bath in boiling water and "close" his legs together 😆I still don't have a clear idea about the diorama's composition, but there are two options. Either the tank will be displayed like in the first photo and these three gentlemen will be on the tank, looking at their fellows on the ground, or the model will be displayed from the front in which case I'll turn the two sitting dudes around and the crewman with a puppy will be on the ground. In either case, two more figures should find their way into the diorama, but I don't want to spoil too much 😁
The stowage is again a mix of random things. Jerry cans from the ancient Tamiya set, the triangular canister comes from PanzerArt, MG cans are again my famous 3D prints... 😁 And the Panzerfaust crate is from Plusmodel. It might seem a bit odd, sitting there like that, but it comes from a historical photo of the same Jagdpanther 314 I'm depicting with this model.
Tarps are again made from epoxy putty, but this time I tried AK Greenpower, which is rebranded Green Stuff. I like it... a lot! Why didn't I go with Paper Shaper from VMS? Because the shaper is wet and a bit sticky, and paper tarps look different than epoxy tarps. And, as you might've noticed, one crewman doesn't exactly sit flush with the JP's roof, so I'll have to sculpt a blanket under his butt. Butt I'll have to do that once the model is finished and the composition of the diorama is finally known to the world. In other words, epoxy tarps are easier to apply to a painted model than paper ones because the process is "dry".
And that's gonna be it I guess, now I'll have to tear the model down and prepare it for priming. But before that, I need to compress 5 hours of footage into a 20-30 minute video!
PS. today I went for a walk as a part of my physio... damn, my leg is so weak! 😁
Comments
Leon Weber
Just joined your patreon, dont regret it seeing it now. Gotta say those figures are really satisfying to paint because all the details in it. I didnt put them on a stug III aswel. Mine are sitting in my Ferdinand.
Night Shift
Oh no, I might've chosen the wrong muzzle brake! Damn it. The wooden jack block is mentioned in the instructions but I couldn't fit it on the engine deck. It blocked the engine hatch, no matter how I tried to squeeze it in there. Not sure what happened there.
Nice build, love the damaged Zimmerit, the attention of details and historical accuracy, just two minor things I want to mention, for the 654 Jagdpanthers wooden jack block wasn't disapeared but moved to the engine deck and few thin plates were added as a holder, if you look closely to the surviving one at Saumur Tank Museum this small detail is still exist at the deck. The second thing is the muzzle brake, I personally notice a pattern when I was looking at hundreds of B&W photos, most of the time early one-piece gun barrel was equipped with small muzzle brake and the later interchangeable gun barrel has large muzzle brake, they are both included in this kit.
